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1. Edible tuber of any of several yams.
4. An associate degree in applied science.
7. Harsh or corrosive in tone.
11. The compass point midway between east and southeast.
12. (British) A waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.
13. Common Indian weaverbird.
14. Aromatic bulb used as seasoning.
15. Capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
16. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
17. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
20. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord.
23. The executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget.
24. A medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning).
25. A metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables.
26. The basic unit of money in Zambia.
29. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
32. The Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Dali region of Yunnan.
35. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
36. The face or front of a building.
38. Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object).
41. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
42. The seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located adv.
43. Relatively small fast-moving sloth.
44. (Irish) Mother of the ancient Irish gods.
45. Either extremity of something that has length.
46. Family based on male descent.
47. A decree that prohibits something.
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1. Not only so, but.
2. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
3. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers.
4. The basic unit of electric current adopted under the System International d'Unites.
5. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
6. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
7. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
8. West Indian tree having racemes of fragrant white flowers and yielding a durable timber and resinous juice.
9. The eighth month of the civil year.
10. Small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body.
18. Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog.
19. Type genus of the Amiidae.
21. Legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity.
22. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
27. A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
28. An interruption in the intensity or amount of something.
30. Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200).
31. Treated with contempt.
33. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
34. Someone who eats no animal products at all.
37. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
39. The quantity that can be held in a mug.
40. Used of a single unit or thing.
41. A public promotion of some product or service.
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